Today in Labor History--April 16 Garment Workers Parade, May Day, 1916 *April 16, 1916 -* 25,000 garment workers in New York City were locked out by employers in a dispute over hiring practices. A General Strike was called by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union ending ...
8th Grade Literacy & Poverty Predict HS Grad Rates Image by monado Thanks to Rachel Norton, San Francisco School Board member, for her recent blog post: “Who is likely to finish HS? You can tell in 8th grade,” and Kathryn Baron, from the Topics in Education blog, for her recent post: Poverty + poor ...
Allentown Teachers Silenced Allentown Teacher? (Image by ryumu) Like virtually every other school district in the country, Allentown is grappling with difficult cuts, including the elimination of 247 teaching positions and 85 courses. Not surprising, at the last school board ...
Community Colleges: $800 Million in Cuts, 400,000 Students Turned Away There has been much talk of the devastating cuts to California’s two university systems, the University of California (UC) and the Cal State University (CSU), with each facing $500 million cuts. There have been ongoing large scale student ...
